On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 07:28:39PM -0500, John Eldredge wrote: > I find shop=trade too generic to be useful, as there are many different > trades besides the building-construction trades.
Where does that constraint come from? You can have the subtag trade take pretty well any relevant value. Building_materials just happened to be the original motivation. As for "white-collar" and such, that seems to be some sort of local class distinction. There is absolutely no such intention in the original proposal. Rather "trade" suggests "professional", and as such perhaps to be admired and emulated. But really it was invented as a way to tag clear groups of places that had no obvious existing tags, and using the subtag had the great advantage that applications did not have to know all the possible values of "trade". Applications can just include them in, say, a group of shop POIs in the vicinity. The user can then inspect and decide which are of interest. Having a plethora of slightly different main tags seems an inferior approach. But again, the subtag trade again has the vast advantage that it is completely compatible with as many main tags as needed. Some values of trade might become redundant if a new main tag is invented, but that is ok. What am I missing? ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
